Nikki Sivils Day

My good friend Ria invited us for a day of scrapping, eating and non stop chatting! It was so much fun to be able to scrap with my close friends again. It has been awhile since something like this happened. Everybody's present - Ria, April, Liza, Iris, Dinah, Ems, BJay, Kitkat and Arlene.

Feb. 20 was dubbed as Nikki Sivils Day for the Adobo Girls (this is what we have named ourselves after a day we brought different kinds of Adobo during a crop). Ria generously shared with us her Nikki Sivils papers and embellishments.

I made one Nikki Sivils LO that day. Although I had to add some more buttons when I got home and added Ethan's handwriting too! I initially named this layout, "Try" inspired from the Daisy Bucket rub on that I applied at the bottom of my LO but later on I changed my mind when I saw Ethan's handwriting. So now, the title is "I Can Do It!"

There was so much inspiration that I get to make another layout using three Valentine themed paper lines from BasicGrey (Sugar Rush), Fancy Pants (Vintage Valentine) ,Daisy Bucket (Loves Me, Loves Me Not) and a little from Nikki Sivils (Victoria Street). Papers and embellishments are from BG and FP while the rub ons are from DBD. The papers used in this project are available at Lasting Impression.

After one Nikki Sivils layout, I tried another one again but didn't get to finish it. I hope to finish and share it with you here soon.

Check this out to see layouts of my friends.

Can't Get Enough ...

... of these adorable monsters. After using my Monstrosity papers from Lasting Impression, I couldn't resist making another one and mixing them with other paper lines too.

For this layout, I tried putting as much photos as I can to show how we celebrated Ethan's 5th Out of This World Birthday Party. I don't know if I did it right though. By the time, I positioned and glued all the photos and papers, I couldn't tell where to put my journaling. Perhaps next time I'll be more careful and plan first my journaling before I place all the other elements.

I love Ethan's smile in these pictures. It only shows how much he enjoyed his big day which we celebrated with only few of his friends and classmates.

This one is a monster overload. Can you recognize the paper lines to which these monsters are from? These adorable monsters are from October Afternoon, Sassafras Lass and Daisy Bucket!

The photos for this layout would look cluttered if printed in color so I thought that I needed to change them into BW. The photo's background is a little dull for these papers; Ethan and his friends' wore clothes that are unmatched too. I'm very OC with color and I'll try everything just to make everything color coordinated hehehe.

I'm happy to be sharing again my layouts. I hope to be productive this weekend and make atleast two layouts. Wish me luck!

-Pia

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our Valentine's Day was pretty simple. We were at home the whole day watching Tagalog movies (mostly KC and Richard's ones, yup certified jologs ako!) while Jeff took a rest he badly needed. In the evening, we had dinner at Golden Bay Restaurant along Macapagal Boulevard. I knew we had to have Chinese food because incidentally this year's Valentine falls on a Chinese New Year as well hehehe. Connection? Wala naman masyado. We've been eyeing that resto for quite some time now and since traffic was so heavy along Macapagal Blvd. due to MOA's firework display, we simply thought it'll be better to take a turn to the nearest resto which happened to be Golden Bay.

We capped off the night with another dinner with my inlaws at Burgoo, MOA hehehe. We were so full, we hardly ate anything. But it was a fun night chatting with my inlaws. I also got three red roses from my SIL, Angel. Hay buti pa siya naalala ako : D

Ethan made greeting cards for all of us too. One, he did at school. Six others, he made at home with me. Ethan gave one to his lolo and lola (my parents). He also made two for his teachers and one for his mentor. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take photos of those before we gave them. Not that I'm Ethan's mom but I'm so proud of him because he draws and colors very well. I plan to make a book of all his drawings because I believe they are exceptional for his age!

Here are the cards:

Ethan copied the drawing from this old Fancy pants paper. The card is for my inlaws.

This one is made for Jeff. Ethan drew this using his stuff toy as an inspiration.

This one is for us. Ethan made this at school. I asked Ethan what happened to the colors. He said he was mixing different colors to come up with new ones. Hmmm ...

Inside the card, we were amused by what Ethan wrote:

He was asking for a Matchbox Pop Up hehehe!

Lastly, I want to share with you (FINALLY!) my first layout for 2010. Wohooo!!! I can't tell you how happy I am when I finished this days ago!

I combined two Valentine paper collections from Fancy Pants and BasicGrey (available at Lasting Impression).

Materials used: BasicGrey Sugar Rush - Gummy Bears, Jaw Breakers, Rush Runts, and Element Stickers; Fancy Pants Splendid; Shabby Green Door baker's twill;buttons; and Zig pen
Photography by Meng Lim

Happy Valentine's Day! Thanks and come back for more layouts from me!

-Pia

Still Alive ...

I am back after a month of hiatus. I'd still say a Happy New Year to all! I've wanted to write something in my blog ever since December but they're not at all scrapbook related so I thought I'd rather not to. Besides, December was such a busy month. I didn't feel Christmas come ... it was just so fast. One day it was our 6th wedding anniversary (I don't even remember what happened) then it was my birthday, then it was Christmas and Jeff was sick and we all got stuck at home.

I know that I have been a very bad blogger. And I wish to write more often this year.

I feel blessed for 2009 yet I also feel that there are things that I wished we had done. Things I wished were settled and that we don't have to carry on for this year. Things just didn't turn out the way I thought it'll be. Looking back at my journal last year, I saw that I have written so many goals that I thought will come easy. Ok, I lied I knew it won't be easy but seeing that most of them didn't materialize, makes me feel really disappointed .. ok, I think the word must be frustrated.

For 2010, I'm doing it again. I'm writing down goals, I'm making them a reality each day ... I don't know if I'm on the right track but I just want to make it to the finish line feeling satisfied about myself. I don't know when was the last time I felt this.

I hope this year ...

... I can scrap more often. I feel so left out. I feel that I'm less creative. I wanted to sit, relax and just make layouts and feel good about it. I wanted to scrap for my family more often than for other people.

... we can finally plan for baby #2. I'm not at all getting younger. When I had Ethan, I wanted baby #2 maybe 2 to 3 years after him. But there were so many other things we needed to consider before we can say we are ready for baby#2 and so it just came out as a surprise that Ethan has just turned 5 last year!

... we can buy our dream house. I know that moving to a house may take awhile, I just want us to make a downpayment. It'll be a good start. I think.

... we can take a real family vacation. A vacation without cellphones, without any business calls, without anything on our minds but to rest and relax.

I have so many other personal goals, hopes and wishes for this year but I'd keep them to myself for now.

Thanks to all those who still reads my blog or those who drops by and still leaves messages even though it takes a lot of time before I can even publish it. Thanks to all those who still believes in my talent. If only you know how much I miss scrapbooking and my scrapping friends.

I'll be posting 2 layouts I made last year in a moment.

-Pia